BUDGET AND BUDGET JUSTIFICATION

For our LST PDA prevention intervention, according to the work plan, our budget is as follows:

 Personnel Salaries and Wages: This will be implemented for all 3 years, May 2016 to April 2019.

Position Title and Name Annual Base Salary Percent Effort on the Project Amount Requested (Annually)

Total Amount Requested across all 3 Years Project Co-ordinator Dr. Arveen Kaur $50,000 100% $50,000 $150,000 Project Director Dr. Judy Lefevers $75,000 20% $15,000 $45,000 Co-investigator Ms. Samantha Rolling $100,000 30% $30,000 $90,000 Co-investigator Dr. Rajat Thakur $100,000 30% $30,000 $90,000 Statistician Dr. Phil Zee $120,000 20% $24,000 $72,000 Research Assistant Ms. Patty Huong $35,000 30% $10,500 $31,500 Total Personnel $480,000 $159,500 $478,500

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Budget Justification for Personnel Salaries:

Project Coordinator. Arveen Kaur, PhD, MPH (100% /12.0 Calendar months, Years 1- 3): Dr. Kaur is the Community health and Prevention Program Specialist at the BCHD. She has been serving the community for 10 years and is well known in the community and among its residents. She will be serving as the Project Coordinator on the LST intervention to prevent PDA. She has worked previously with school prevention programs to address other public health issues like obesity which has been proven to be effective and has developed and maintain a good infrastructure to conduct school- based intervention programs.

Project Director. Judy Lefevers, PhD, CHES (20%/2.4 Calendar Months, Years 1-3): Dr. Lefevers is the Public Health Director of the BCHD. She has been serving the Department for the last 12 years and has also been working in collaboration with the University of Kentucky and KY-ASAP in programs such as Drug Take Back Day. She has an extensive track record working with the Bell County community. She will be devoting 20% effort for LST prevention program and will be monitoring the progress of the work from administrative to scientific level. She will be a part of several work sessions and monthly meetings to track the progress.

Co-investigator. Samantha Rolling, DrPH (30%/3.6 Calendar Months, Year 1-3): Dr. Rolling will be our evaluation expert; she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky in the College of Public Health. She has experience conducting evaluation studies in different areas of public health and she will be working with us to conduct process/outcome evaluation during the project period. She will be devoting 30% effort for LST prevention program.

39 Co-investigator. Rajat Thakur, Pharm.D, MPH (30%/3.6 Calendar Months, Year 1-3): Dr. Thakur is a pharmacy and public health professor at the University of Kentucky and has experience working in different areas focused on PDA. He will assist with PDA adaptation of changing the LST session on substance abuse to specifically prescription drugs with 30% effort for this intervention project.

Statistician. Phil Zee, PhD. (20%/2.4 Calendar Months, Years 1-3): Dr. Zee is an associate professor in biostatistics at the University of Kentucky and has been working with the university for eight years. He is an expert in statistical analysis and has

developed a novel statistical methodology to analyse interactions in the data. He has been working with us on other BCHD projects; he will be serving 1.2 calendar months with us in this project for statistical analysis.

Research Assistant. Patty Huong, MPH (30%/3.6 Calendar Months, Years 1-3): Ms. Huong has been hired as a Research Assistant. She has expertise in conducting community-based programs and has specialized trainings in outcome evaluation. She will be serving 1.2 calendar months with us for all three years.

 Training Costs:

LST includes 2-day training of trainers (TOT) by Life Skills trainer from NHPA at the regional center for all the staff members (teachers from each school, project

coordinator, and co-investigators) which will cost $1,070 per participant. This training will enable the community to develop their own capacity to train instructors. The 2-day training will be conducted only in the first year, and subsequently a 1-day review training or booster training in the 2nd _{year. The training will be offered to 12 LST trainers (school}

40 teachers), project coordinator, and co-investigators summing up to a total of 15

participants and cost of $16,050. Training also includes a booster training workshop in the 2nd _{year at a cost of $3,500. Travel expenses will be included to travel to the} regional site for the 2-day training, plus hotel accommodations which may su m up to $2,500 per person and a total of $37,500. The grand total for first year is $53,550 and second year is $41,000.

 Curriculum and Material for LST (Supplies):

The curriculum for LST typically will be $8 per student per session for high school

students and the teacher’s manual is $250 each * 12 teachers’ (Total of $3,000 per level and total of $6,000 for 2 Years). For all three years, total number of sessions (Level 1, 2) is 30 sessions and approximately 45-60 minutes to deliver each session. Grades 9 and 10 will have two teachers’ from each school to implement the training (total of 12 teachers) and a total of approximately 650 students from the three high schools.

Level 1 has 15 sessions and Level 2 has 15 sessions to deliver in classrooms. The total cost for all levels will be $156,000 for training material (650 students * $8 per copy for 30 sessions). Other printing material for administering quizzes and pre- and post-test surveys may include another $3,000 each year. Rewards and incentives for students would sum up to about $5,000 for first and second year and $2,000 for third year.

 Equipment:

Item Required Number Needed Unit Cost Amount Requested

Computer 12 $ 1,200 $14,400

Color Laser Printer 1 $5,000 $5,000

Computer workstation 1 $ 5,500 $5,500

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reports, collecting data, and routine correspondence or electronic communications. The computers will be given to each school for data collection and electronic

communication, and to the co-investigators and research assistant for conducting related research activities.

 Travel Expenses:

The Project Coordinator will travel to the schools to monitor program implementation which will include approximately 30 trips and a total cost of $5,000 for 2 years ($2500 per year for 15 sessions/trips) for travelling. It will also include travel expense for attending the annual regional training and conference to be held in Washington, DC. Two to four members of the team will attend the conference in the third year, adding $10,000 ($2500 per person *4) to the travel expenses. An additional $2,000 will be allocated for other travel purposes in Year 3 summing up to total of $12,000.

S.No. BUDGET YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 TOTAL

1. Personnel salaries & wages

$159,500 $159,500 $159,500 $478,500 2. Training, plus related

travel $53,550 $41,000 $0 $94,550 3. Curriculum material $81,000 $81,000 $0 $162,000 4. Equipment costs $24,900 $0 $0 $24,900 5. Printing $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 $9,000 6. Travel costs $2,500 $2,500 $12,000 $17,000 7. Incentives $5,000 $5,000 $2,000 $12,000 TOTAL $329,450 $292,000 $176,500 $797,950

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APPENDIX

1. PLANNING COMMITTEE WORKSHEET

S.No. CONTACT PERSON CONTACT INFORMATION EXPERTISE, SKILLS